The GOP “Pledge to America” released this morning at first glance looks like it has two main parts — repeal Obamacare, and NOT to do a bunch of other stuff, most of which amounts to promising not to raise a… Continue Reading
Really? Filibustering the defense appropriations act so that we can “study” (read: delay) repealing “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” instead of just repealing it now and accepting the inevitable? I’ve not known anyone in the military who didn’t know full well… Continue Reading
So newly-nominated U.S. Senate candidate apparently once “dabbled into witchcraft” back in her early twenties. That sounds like a gigantic yawner of a non-story to me. There being no religious test for the holding of Federal office and all forms… Continue Reading
In response to a query from a Reader in Portugal, written so that hopefully an automatic translator wouldn’t lose too much meaning: I can tell that your English is much better than my Portuguese. I had to use a computer… Continue Reading
High speed rail between Milwaukee and Madison is projected to reach speeds in excess of 79 miles an hour. Ooh. Aah. Your tax dollars at work. $810 million of it, or about one-tenth of the total high-speed rail dollars in… Continue Reading
Once upon a time, I was involved with politics, on the right-of-center side of things, and interested in helping search for the issues of the future and the new solutions to those issues that the conservative movement could help bring… Continue Reading
It’s fair to say that a trio of announcements from the White House are enough to signal a new tone, if not necessarily a new policy, on economic issues. The policies are the result of the continuing failure of the… Continue Reading
Michael Bennet, an incumbent Senator from Michigan Colorado running for re-election, said this at a recent campaign event that “We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet … In my view, we have nothing to… Continue Reading
Generic Republicans are leading generic Democrats in Congressional polling by ten points. This would be remarkable news if the United States voted for parties rather than individual candidates. To be sure, the President’s party traditionally takes a hit in midterm… Continue Reading
A clear-eyed blogger has pointed out (in a post that I can no longer locate) that much of the ongoing sturm und drang over the mosque community center that includes a mosque presently in construction nearly tragically underfunded right on… Continue Reading